Drug Death Prompts Murder Charge

ENFIELD — An East Windsor man who police say sold heroin to another man, resulting in his death, has been charged with capital felony murder by Enfield police.

Frank Caravello, 39, of Grove Street, sold heroin to Stephen Peace of Enfield in June, said Police Chief Ronald Marcotte. Peace overdosed on the heroin and died soon afterward, Marcotte said.

At the time, the case was considered an untimely death, Marcotte said. But after it was discovered that Peace had died of an overdose, Caravello became liable because he had sold Peace the heroin, the chief said.

Marcotte said Caravello has a long record of arrests in the area in the past several years.

Under state statutes, a person can be charged with capital felony murder for a number of reasons, including ``the illegal sale, for economic gain, of cocaine, heroin or methadone to a person who dies as a direct result of the use by him of such cocaine, heroin or methadone.''

Caravello was arrested Wednesday and presented in Enfield Superior Court on Thursday. His case was transferred to Hartford Superior Court. He was being held on $250,000 bond.